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Hugh Fearnley-Eatsitall doesn’t anymore

2011 August 27

by sampablokuper

What do you know, another notorious carnivore has joined the low meat bandwagon! Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, this time. This is excellent news, as Hugh is a very effective communicator and a tireless publicist for his beliefs. Let’s see what he has to say about this change in his approach to consuming flesh.

I would love to persuade you to eat more vegetables. And thereby to eat less meat – and maybe a bit less fish too. Why? To summarise, we need to eat more vegetables and less flesh because vegetables are the foods that do us the most good and our planet the least harm. … We eat too much meat in the west – too much for our own health and far too much for the welfare of the many millions of animals we raise for food.